Feds allow Canadian loggers to threaten Maine jobs, Senate president says in complaint
Illegal Canadian competition “has left many Maine loggers and truckers struggling to find work and earn decent wages,” Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, said in the complaint.
After massive protests, Maine cities try to turn rallying cries into change
“It needs to be action, and it needs to be coming from people of color making those decisions,” said Desiree Vargas with Racial Equity and Justice in Bangor.
Mainers with data exposed in crime center’s breach have little recourse
The hack should be a lesson for those in government charged with safeguarding sensitive data, said two cybersecurity experts.
Lawsuit: Maine’s largest private financiers and banks defrauded homeowners
Three men from southern Maine — Joel Douglas of Gorham, Steven Fowler of Portland and James Lewis of Casco — filed the lawsuit alleging racketeering and fraud against a long list of defendants.
Hundreds of records hacked from Maine intelligence agency
The Maine-specific documents originated from the Maine Information and Analysis Center, the secretive intelligence agency run by the state police and the Maine Emergency Management Agency.
Maine police departments now have to follow stricter rules on use of force
All Maine law enforcement agencies are now required to adopt rules outlining how and when police use force in the face of resistance.
Maine prisons to ease coronavirus restrictions in coming weeks
State prisoners will be able to have visitors and resume jobs in the community in July, though some rules and precautions that didn’t exist prior to the pandemic will still apply.
State investigating Portland jail’s use of pepper spray against 2 inmates with mental illness
In one case, staff at the Portland jail filled a man’s cell with pepper spray to handcuff him.
Amid protests, Maine justice academy head addresses calls to reinvent policing
In an interview, Rick Desjardins discussed a federal bill that would ban chokeholds, the training cadets undergo, and the concept of policing with permission.
How rules on police use of force differ across Maine’s 4 biggest departments
The Bangor and Lewiston police departments, as well as the Maine State Police, do not explicitly require officers to intervene and stop excessive force used by other officers, while rules in Portland require officers there to intervene.
There are no more active cases of the coronavirus at the Hope House shelter in Bangor
There are no more active cases of the coronavirus associated with the Hope House Health and Living Center in Bangor, officials said Monday.
He pleaded to leave Maine prison early amid pandemic. The answer was no.
Why the debate about reducing Maine’s prison population has been more contentious than the move to shrink its jails during the pandemic.
See where all the protests are happening across Maine
To show their scale, the Bangor Daily News compiled a map of the protests across the state based on both our own reporting and reporting by other Maine news outlets.
Officials still aren’t sure how the coronavirus got into Maine prison
Officials still aren’t sure how the novel coronavirus made its way into Maine’s second largest prison last month, infecting four inmates who have all since recovered, the state’s corrections chief said.
Maine police say they want to end racism in policing but have opposed efforts to track their treatment of minorities
Gathering that information would be a first step for state leaders to know how extensive bias is in Maine policing.
Maine proposes tourists show negative coronavirus test to skip 14-day quarantine
The Mills administration is circulating a proposal to allow tourists to skip Maine’s 14-day quarantine requirement for out-of-state visitors if they can provide recent negative COVID-19 test results.
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